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Movies that feel like Sinister 2 (2015)

If you loved Sinister 2, the closest films we have are Poltergeist (2015), Veronica (2017) and Insidious: The Last Key (2018). All three share Sinister 2's dread and unsettling feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 7 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and AMC+ and others, checked against today's data.

A young mother and her twin sons move into a rural house that's marked for death.

🍅 14% Rotten Tomatoes5.3 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Ciarán Foydreadunsettling
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Poltergeist
2015 · dir. Gil Kenan
🍅 29%4.9horror

The same preoccupation in both: haunted house

A family's suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

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Veronica
2017 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 86%6.2horror

Both are working the same pair: nightmare, supernatural

The difference: Reviewed even better

In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.

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Insidious: The Last Key
2018 · dir. Adam Robitel
🍅 34%5.7horror · thriller

One thread runs through both: evil spirit

The difference: Sits closer to thriller than Sinister 2 does

Parapsychologist Elise Rainier and her team travel to Five Keys, NM, to investigate a man’s claim of a haunting. Terror soon strikes when Rainier realizes that the house he lives in was her family’s old home.

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Ouija
2014 · dir. Stiles White
🍅 6%4.5horror

Both are built on the same subject: supernatural

A group of friends must confront their most terrifying fears when they awaken the dark powers of an ancient spirit board.

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The Amityville Horror
2005 · dir. Andrew Douglas
🍅 23%5.9horror

Common ground: murder

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

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Ouija: Origin of Evil
2016 · dir. Mike Flanagan
🍅 82%6.2horror

Both land dread and unease at once

In 1967 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

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Mama
2013 · dir. Andy Muschietti
🍅 63%6.2horror

Both keep coming back to the same thing: haunted house

Guillermo del Toro presents Mama, a supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.

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The Borderlands
2014 · dir. Elliot Goldner
🍅 83%5.8horror

The same preoccupation in both: the investigation

Vatican investigators are sent to the British West Country to investigate paranormal activity, and they find the events are more disturbing than they first imagined.

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The Curse of La Llorona
2019 · dir. Michael Chaves
🍅 26%5.3horror

Dread-soaked horror, and it commits to that

In 1970s Los Angeles, the legendary ghost La Llorona is stalking the night -- and the children. Ignoring the eerie warning of a troubled mother, a social worker and her own kids are drawn into a frightening supernatural realm. Their only hope of surviving La Llorona's deadly wrath is a disillusioned priest who practices mysticism to keep evil at bay.

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Insidious: Chapter 2
2013 · dir. James Wan
🍅 38%6.6horror · thriller

Common ground: evil spirit

The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.

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[REC]³ Genesis
2012 · dir. Paco Plaza
🍅 45%5horror

Horror with a pulse of unease, in both cases

A pair of newlyweds must fight to survive when their wedding reception descends into chaos and carnage when their guests become infected by a virus that turns them into hungry zombies.

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Annabelle Comes Home
2019 · dir. Gary Dauberman
🍅 64%5.9horror

Dread-soaked horror in both cases

Determined to keep Annabelle from wreaking more havoc, demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren bring the possessed doll to the locked artifacts room in their home, placing her “safely” behind sacred glass and enlisting a priest’s holy blessing. But an unholy night of horror awaits as Annabelle awakens the evil spirits in the room, who all set their sights on a new target—the Warrens' ten-year-old daughter, Judy, and her friends.

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